The Street Hawker

roadway peddlers are very common in India. They can be found here, there and everywhere. There is just now any village, t receive or a city without street hawkers. They have been there for countries. They go from wizard town to another town and street for selling their various articles. A street hawker comes with his wicket full of fruits, vegetables, sweets, and articles of general use. He may come with a big bundle of clothes or shawls on his back. He is very useful. He brings the bazaar to our door-steps and makes life easy and convenient. He is welcomed by all, oddly by ladies, old men and children.He has no fixed hours. If he is there in this resolution in the morning, he will be in the next street in the evening. He has his own way of selling goods and calling the customers. The things he hawks are cheaper. On seeing him come children and ladies flock him to get things of unremarkable need. He can also liked by schools during recess epoch. His eatables are liked by s chool children as they are cheap and tasty. There is a lot of haggling. Sometimes a hawker has to come to terms with his old customers and sell things on reduced rates.Sometimes hawkers cause nuisance by distributing the peace of the locality by their loud cells. They often throw wrappers, fruit-skins and leaf-plates here and there. Many a time a hawker may indulge in theft or stealing. An anti-social element may also be there in the guise of a street hawker. It is not safe to purchase things from unappreciated hawkers. Hawkers should be registered and licenced to check cheating and mal-practices. They may cheat teentsy children and supply cheap and libelous eatables. Sometimes a hawker may turnout a child-lifter.Thousands and thousands of poor people earn their daily bread by hawking. It is a very useful self-employment which can be started with a very small amount of money. There is no harm in earning ones bread and butter by hawking. Government should examine to help them by giving loans on cheap rates of interest. Their lot should be improved as citizens of the country. As hawkers, they render a useful service. Instead of becoming a burden on the society, they advocate themselves and their families by adopting this profession. So far no social group or government agency has through with(p) anything to organise them.